Historical Events

Ordinations at Niranam Church

10th July 1761: Mar Thoma V ordained Mar Thoma VI as his successor

10th July 1770: Enthronement of Mar Thoma VI as Mar Dionysius I by Mar Gregorios and Mar Ivanios (Antiochian bishops)

15th September 1912: Ordination of H.H. Baselius Paulose I as the first Catholicose of the Indian Orthodox Church by H.H. Abdul Messiah, the Patriarch of Antioch and the establishment of Catholicate in India

30th April 1925: Ordination of H.H.Baselius Geevarghese I as the second Catholicose